atmOSphere
A Mac app for Bluesky and the blogs you follow.
Free · Beta · Apple Silicon
I built atmOsphere because I wanted a Bluesky app, but not just a Bluesky app. I wanted a place I could read, and pick up where I left off, and get back to things when I was ready. Where I could follow conversations, and blogs, all in the same place. Where my keyboard shared first-class citizenship with my mouse, and where the whole thing gave a vibe of the bulletin boards I'd dial into in high school.
Nothing did this, not in a fully native Mac application, not the way I had in mind. So I built it. And I like it, and I hope you like it too.
Let me tell you a bit more about atmOSphere, and what I have in mind for where it goes from the foundation already in place. Because it's something specific, and something I think is pretty cool.
Bluesky at your own pace
New posts appear above your place in Following, so you don't lose your place. You can open a conversation beside your feed. You can do all the stuff you expect from a Bluesky app: compose posts and threads, attach images, and use Bluesky messages and notifications from the app.
A reader for the blogs you follow
But you can also read blogs. And other publications that use for atmospheric publishing. Which is , , , and more.
The Publications section brings your Standard.Site subscriptions into the app. You can keep track of what’s unread and press Space to page through an article and open the next one.
In development: Desk
All of the above is where atmOSphere is at right now. But let me tell you a bit about where it's going.
I built atmOSphere around a metaphor. It's your space, your Room. You should be able to decorate it how you want—and atmOSphere comes with several gorgeous themes, and you can build you own right in the app and share them with friends—and fill it with what you want. But your Room exists within the broader World, which is everything and everyone in the ATProto network. So I'm building a way to explore the stuff that's out there in that bigger World and bring it into your Room.
The thing is, though, our rooms can get pretty cluttered. It's a good kind of clutter, collected meaningful stuff on shelves, in boxes, spread everywhere. It's comfortable, cozy. But you need a place in your room to focus. That's why atmOSphere will soon have not just your Room, but your Desk.
This will be your place to keep articles and conversations you want to come back to. Add an article to your Desk and you save your progress reading it, come back to it later, and find the conversations happening around it. If you want to keep an eye on any of those conversation, you can add them to your Desk, too. You Desk is where you can follow and participate in conversations, even if they started in different places.
Desk prototype with sample content.
This is the part of atmOSphere I'm working on now, and will roll out I hope soon. If you grab the beta, you can use it as a way to read and post on Bluesky, and read your favorite Standard.Site blogs, and it'll update automatically when Desk, and everything that goes with it, is released.
If you want to check out atmOSphere now, grab the beta. It is a beta, so keep that in mind. It works well, but you'll probably encounter bugs. I hope not many. And if you do, there's a little link to report a bug right in the app.
I hope you enjoy atmOSphere. And find me on Bluesky and let me know what you think.
Free · Beta · Apple Silicon